The Civil War is finally over. After two years away, Corrie returns to her family a different woman than the girl who left Miracle Springs, California, with nothing but a journal and a dream. She feels restless as she tries to settle back into...

After dramatic events over Christmas and New Year, Ellie Browne, landlady of The Dog & Duck, settles into her new life with partner Max and their new baby. But when she'apos;s asked to organise a summer wedding for her best friend, her thoughts turn...

In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has...

A faded seaside town in autumn is the backdrop for this elegiac story of a vulnerable boy and the adult who befriends him. Eight year old Neville, who counts stars and steps and grains of sand, is the first to notice that the red beach hut is...

When investigator of historical mysteries Jess Trevanion is presented with a painting of a beautiful woman, and asked to identify who it depicts, she jumps at the chance to take her mind off things. Her relationship with Tom Peters isn'apos;t all...

This novella contains three short stories that all revolve around a pure bred golden English Cocker Spaniel. The three short stories are different, but all make reference to this Cocker Spaniel called Bubba Henry. This novella deals with existential...

It's Alicia's birthday and this time, she hopes her husband Zach will remember. If not, Alicia has a plan to spoil herself silly and maybe even leave that ungrateful husband of hers for someone who deserves her more. However, Zach catches wind of her...

This is a collection of haiku in praise of a bumblebee species native to Scotland, bombus lapidaries, so it seemed apt to render it in Scots. The poems alternate between Scots and English, the latter roughly translations of the former, following the...

Life rushes on for us all, our days filled with the mundane, the trivial, the routine. Until sometimes, for some of us, something big and horrible and unexpected happens - like a bereavement.The author of 'A Widow's Words' has just lost her husband...

After being branded during the battle of Jericho, Moriyah has had no prospects for marriage--until now. She hopes to please the man, but things go horribly wrong and she is forced to flee for her life. Seeking safety at one of the Levitical cities of...

THIS 2018 EBOOK REPUBLISHED THROUGH LULU.COM SUPERSEDES PREVIOUS VERSION PUBLISHED THROUGH SPIRE PUBLISHING, WHICH IS OUT OF BUSINESSIt's getting dark, but the country car-park is far from deserted. Cars pull in every so often, and drive around...

This vintage book contains Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel, 'The Secret Garden'. First published as a serial beginning in 1910, it numbers amongst Burnett's most famous works and is widely considered to be a classic of English children's...

Blackfire: The Girl with the Diamond Key (Volume III of the trilogy) concludes the story of four unlikely teenagers who are summoned by a mysterious stranger to save another world being destroyed by evil. Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie,...

Introduction by Lorin ClarkeThis book tells the story of John Clarke'apos;s writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Karenina in forty-three words, and...

A trip to France awakens the past in this heartwarming short summer read from the author of People We Love.Headteacher Nicola Arnott prides herself on her independence. She has successfully juggled motherhood and career, coping with early widowhood...

Everyone knows Elves don't exist. Or do they? Daniel Thomas spent years making a career of turning his imagination into the reality of best selling fantasy novels. Only, no one wants to read about elves and dragons anymore. Daniel learns this...

Althea, Phoebe and Cressida have been friends since school days. Artist Cressida never married; Althea's fast falling out of love with second husband arrogant Geoffrey; while actress Phoebe has a married lover. When they meet up and Phoebe hears that...

The War Between the States has officially begun. Having been invited by President Lincoln to come to Washington, DC, to assist in his reelection campaign, Corrie finds herself far from home. While reporting from the battlefields, she unwittingly...

The battle between Veranda Cruz and the Villalobos cartel turns Phoenix into a war zone Homicide Detective Veranda Cruz will stop at nothing to take down the Villalobos cartel. But when a wave of violence in the city escalates, she fears that the...

Julia Bernay has come to London to become a doctor--a glorious new opportunity for women during the reign of Victoria. When she witnesses a serious accident, her quick actions save the life of barrister Michael Stephenson. He rose above his family's...

This is a fictional story about a young lady: Kerry Watson. It is about how Kerry's life is experienced through the veil of her love life. A story, about how love, the most important aspect in a human being, can end up being experienced as the worse...

In the early 1900s, Camri Coulter's search for her missing brother, Caleb, leads her deep into the political corruption of San Francisco--and into the acquaintance of Irishman Patrick Murdock, who her brother helped clear of murder charges. As the...

In pursuit of new challenges and dealing with the roller coaster of the eighties, Ambulance chasing jet-setter Mario Luna is a survivor, a lover, and a man of his time. With his crew of lovely girls, he works from Pasadena, flying where planes crash,...

Blackfire: The Rise of the Creeping Moors (Volume II of the trilogy) continues the story of four unlikely teenagers who are summoned by a mysterious stranger to save another world being destroyed by evil. Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie,...

It is 1932 and in Berlin Hitler is scheming to overthrow democracy and take absolute power. If not stopped, in the following years he will incrementally manifest a rule of ignorance and senseless criminal hatred, which will result in the unthinkable;...

When a young boy finds a body in a neighbouring village, once again Alex Duggins is drawn into a case of cold-blooded murder. When a body is discovered in the neighbouring village of Underhill, Alex Duggins, owner of Folly-on-Weir'apos;s premier pub,...

THIS 2018 EBOOK REPUBLISHED THROUGH LULU.COM SUPERSEDES PREVIOUS VERSION PUBLISHED THROUGH SPIRE PUBLISHING, WHICH IS OUT OF BUSINESSOde to Sex is a collection of erotic writings.It includes 16 erotic stories on themes from spanking and SM, to...

For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she...

'apos;One of the best YA writers working today.'apos; John GreenVera'apos;s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she'apos;s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he...

What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father’s Macedonian roots to her own maturity, to the life of a woman who is...

'apos;A fantastic tale of spies, deceit and murder in the Elizabethan age'apos; S. D. SykesEngland in 1572 is a powder keg of rumour, fanaticism, treachery and dissent. All it would take is a single spark . . .In the England of Elizabeth I, the fear...

She's more than 3,000 years old. Her grandfather was the patriarch Jacob. She's mentioned by name three times in the Hebrew Bible, but there are no stories told about her. She knew Moses and David, Spinoza and Einstein--and now, at long last, Serach...

Ex-con Nicolas returns home to reconcile with his mother. But he isn't prepared to discover he has a younger sister, whom he's never met. But she's missing, and he isn't the only one looking for Emilia. If he has any chance of finding her alive, he...

Mercy McClain joined the school board to protect the children of Teaville, Kansas, from the bullying she experienced as a child. When the worst offender from her school days applies for a teaching position, she is dead set against it. Yet Aaron...

THIS 2018 EBOOK REPUBLISHED THROUGH LULU.COM SUPERSEDES PREVIOUS VERSION PUBLISHED THROUGH SPIRE PUBLISHING, WHICH IS OUT OF BUSINESSA mix of fiction, real experiences, and sex fantasy, this frank and explicit book recounts the erotic adventures of a...

When you're a Frontier Corps Ranger in Sector 12 there's always plenty of work that needs to be done. In your role as soldier there are paramilitary groups to fight and alien agencies to fend off. As a scout and spy you need to stay alert for signs...

Rick has always treated Kim coldly and Kim had always been nothing but mean to Rick. Their enmity has always made their friends uncomfortable especially knowing that behind it lays an attraction to each other. They trick them and the two end up at...

Know your frenemy.'apos;I'apos;ve had adventures too. My whole life doesn'apos;t revolve around you, you know.'apos;When she'apos;s not busy amassing armies of Cybermen, or manipulating the Doctor and his companions, Missy has plenty of time to kill...

Poetry: A Writers'apos; Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these...